The treaty signing in New York on March 6 marked the first conciliation under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea—a process UN Secretary-General António Guterres said could offer other countries a path toward resolving contentious maritime boundary disputes.

Speedcast International Ltd. said on Jan. 18 it has been selected by Noble Corp. Plc (NYSE: NE) to provide new IT communications equipment and fully managed connectivity services to their global drilling fleet.

Commencing March 2018, Maersk Master and Maersk Mariner, Maersk Supply Service’s two first Starfish-class anchor handling vessels built in 2017, will be on contract with Quadrant Energy in Western Australia.

UTEC, a survey company in subsea services group Acteon, has been awarded a contract by Technip Oceania Pty Ltd. to provide survey and positioning services on the Greater Enfield Project, offshore Western Australia.

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The last massive component of Australia’s $180 billion LNG construction boom arrived on Aug. 14, stepping up a race between Anglo-Dutch giant Shell and Japan’s Inpex to start chilling gas for export in 2018.

The Ngujima-Yin FPSO will be leaving station from the Vincent Field, located offshore of the state of Western Australia, from May for “modifications ahead of forecast Greater Enfield production” from the middle of 2019, a spokeswoman from majority stakeholder and operator Woodside told Reuters in an email.

Global miner BHP Billiton unveiled a board shakeup where controversial director Grant King will step down just six months after his appointment with the company amid oil investments concerns, BHP said on Aug. 23.

Chevron promoted its deputy managing director in Australia Nigel Hearne to take over from long-time managing director Roy Krzywosinski, who will be moving to Houston as head of engineering in Chevron's Energy Technology Co.

The Australian oil and gas sector is rebounding and is about to receive a further boost from government, Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan told the opening session of the Australasian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (AOG) in Perth.

Gas extraction via fracking could only resume in Australia’s Northern Territory district after a study on the controversial practice is completed in two to three years, according to the recommendations of an independent group released on Dec. 12.